Casemate: making malware analysis feel calm instead of scary

Cybersecurity websites usually look the same: black background, green code, a hooded guy. I wanted to try the opposite for Casemate, a concept for a malware analysis tool.

The idea is simple: the product keeps a suspicious file in a sealed chamber and watches what it does. So I put a bug frozen in amber in the middle of a canyon. It’s dangerous and under control at the same time, and you get it without reading a word.

Then I made sure the page still works for a security lead who wants facts. The stats sit right next to the headline: threats isolated, latency, endpoints covered.

The hardest part was keeping it warm without losing trust. I stayed with one terracotta colour, wide capitals and mono labels, so it reads like a serious tool and not a poster.

I’m taking on new projects for SaaS and tech teams. If you have a product that’s hard to explain in one glance, send me a message.

What do you think, would you trust a security product with a canyon on the homepage?

I love it! It feels so calm, and I would definitely try it! This is amazing, Kris. I never thought cybersecurity could be this cool ❤️‍🔥

What happens when a poet picks up a pen and remembers she likes to sketch too:) I write poetry over at @words.bycm on IG and since Inktober is here, I thought it was time to let that side of me out of its little corner of Instagram.

This is 'What Is Freedom?', a poem I wrote about a blue bird that spends its life fighting to escape a cage, only to find its wings clipped when the door finally opens.

A little existential crisis, now available in ink.

I wanted to bring the poem into a visual form, keeping the bird, the open cage, and that big, complicated idea of freedom at the heart of it.

For the writers, designers, and other creative shape-shifters here: what side of your creativity would you bring to Inktober?

this is so gorgeous!